Easy peasy apple pie

One of the things I looked forward to indulging in once we moved in to our new flat was baking. (Other were simple pleasures like NOT finding an empty space in the fridge where you left your food or wine, NOT finding unknown curly hairs in my razor were also on the list).

Now we've lived in this new flat (and when I say new, I mean new to us, not new as is mint condition, cause that it ain't) for a couple of weeks and I have yet to start any bigger baking projects - It takes a lot of time for everything to settle after a move this big, and since we are still waiting for my kitchen paraphernalia to arrive in boxes from the Swedish warehouse the poor utensils have been stored for the best part of 2 years, as well as for the the IKEA delivery service guys to put down their crack pipe for long enoug hto successfully deliver our furniture to our house, it's still a bit of a mess in there.

I HAVE however managed to find a new, dead simple recipe for apple pie, that I in the spirit of everything nice will share:

Kleft some apples (about 7 f them) into a pie tin - the Swedish kind, big diameter with low edges, like this one:

Then powder (sift, sprinke - I don't really have the foodie vocabulary nailed yet) the apples with about 2 dl flour and 1 dl sugar (1 dl = 100 milliliters ok?)

After that it's just a question of covering the beauty with some butter. Use a cheese grater (you know, one of those things that would make your life endlessly much easier than trying to cut cheese with a knife like some kind of caveman)

And then you pop it in the oven for 40-45 minutes on 200 degrees, gas mark 6. Ta Daaaa! Easy peasy apple pie.

Steam of life

This is as Finnish as it gets: A documentary set in the sauna, about silent Finnish men opening up and sharing the often violent, sad and uplifting stories about their life. It makes me so home sick I might just shed a teeny tiny tear.


STEAM OF LIFE TRAILER from OktoberFi on Vimeo.

Hurts

There’s a interview with Hurts on the Gigwise website. Well, there’s one there too, since Hurts – finally, a long time after first hearing Wonderful life – now has blown up, as they were meant to. They belong on the top.

I can’t help thinking though, like every indie kid inevitably always does when their favorite band goes and becomes all popular, that I liked it better when they were my little secret, and I got the satisfaction of evangelizing to others about them: “Have you heard the great news, Hurts is coming!”.

I try to suppress that feeling nowadays though, because it’s very unflattering, all about ego really. Now everybody knows them, and you don’t get to be a smartass about it any more. Get over it and get on with it.

In the interview, Theo Hutchcraft is saying “We’re not just two lads down the pub”. It’s just quite unheard of, for artists/celebrities, to say that you’re NOT like everybody else, that you’re NOT like any other person and have no intention of trying to be either. I love it.

That’s why I don’t get the “are they for real” discussion – What exactly is it that wouldn’t be real? Do people think that they dress in shell suits and listen to N-Dubz on their spare time? Because their happen to be able to form sentences without drooling and dress like your grandpa? 

I think this is the most real thing that has happened to the UK charts in a long time. And I can't wait for them to become real pop royalty. Even if that means that I don't get the satisfaction of introducing someone new to their music.  


You can find the interview here.

http://www.gigwise.com/features/58267/Hurts-It's-A-Wonderful-Life

Pausmusik

Ok. Av nagon anledning har nu alla Youtubeklipp pa bloggen blivt knasiga och saknar sin hogra halva. Eftersom HTML kod icke ar mitt gebit sa far ni lyssna pa pausmusik i form av Solander medan jag forsoker rycka tag i nan   datakunnig.

http://www.myspace.com/solandersweden

Hyper Hyperballad

This is brilliant in both idea and practice: Robyn covering Bjorks Hyperballad. From the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm.

Finndie Wednesday!

The lovely, lovely Husky Rescue. Note the best hipster/tango moustache ever. I get home sick just seeing it.
You might want to go to the Youtube link to watch the whole video thought, cause for some reason, it won't show the whole thing.... where's IT when you nee them?

Dagens roligaste

http://gizmodo.com/5632159/this-is-how-a-heavy-storm-looks-inside-a-cruise-liner